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Reblog this post, and spread it around as much as you can! Tagging others helps a lot too! I know some people do not have the ability to donate, but reblogging is free and costs you nothing. Real people are suffering as we speak and while you may have the privilege to scroll, there are those who do not even have access to electricity, water, and other basic needs at the moment. 

I also understand that this is not what I usually post, but please know that this is IMPORTANT and we can NOT ignore the fear and pain of other human beings, and that is this blog of mine that receives the most attention. 

Have some empathy. It’s basic human respect. You’re not losing anything, while some people are losing everything. There is nothing political about death and loss. 

https://boycott-israel.org/ (list of companies to boycott)

https://iranhumanrights.org/ (news for iran)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ouyBZRGuo1KEOHXJcgidWmPjk8druAnNg1NMgIe-58A/htmlview?pli=1 (immigration/raids resources)

https://helpourpeople.carrd.co/ (resources)

https://arab.org/ (clicking is FREE)

https://gazafunds.com/ (a website of donations)

https://piousprojects.org/campaign/2712 (feminine hygiene)

https://linktr.ee/Rayray364 (sudan, congo, palestine links)

https://ceasefiretoday.com/ (petition and more)

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/west-bank-gaza (children)

https://linktr.ee/freedrcongo (donation list)

https://connecting-humanity.org/ (donate esims)

twitter thread of links (1) twitter thread (2) twitter thread (3)

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

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The grassroots organization in the Twin Cities that has stood up to ICE is an example of how anarchism works: it is horizontal and participatory, without centralization or authority.

How could we live without centralization or authority?

Here's an FAQ to answer your questions:

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